The park

Victor Pasmore
Britain
1908 – 1997

The park
1947-48
oil on canvas
Currently on display, Gallery 16
Place made
London
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
108.1 x 80.9 cm
Credit line
A.R. Ragless Bequest Fund 1954
Accession number
0.1535
Signature and date
Inscribed "V.P." Not dated.
Provenance
The artist 1948-?; Redfern Gallery, London by 1954; from where acquired by AGSA on the recommendation of Sir Kenneth Clark
Media category
Painting
Collection area
British paintings

  • WALL LABEL: Metamorphosis, collection display 2023

    From its beginnings in the late nineteenth century through to the 1960s, the Art Gallery of South Australia utilised the expertise of overseas art historians and artists to advise on acquisitions for the collection. This work by Victor Pasmore was identified by Sir Kenneth Clark, former director of London’s National Gallery and a renowned historian and television presenter, as a suitable work for Adelaide.

    The park comes from a series of works Pasmore painted of London’s many parks and is one of his last figurative works before he turned almost exclusively to abstraction in 1948. Painted in a pointillist style, Pasmore takes inspiration from post-impressionism to explore light, texture and form through strokes of pure colour. 

     

    Tansy Curtin, Curator of International Art Pre-1980